The National Executive Secretary of Cameroon Teachers Trade Union, CATTU, Wilfred Tassang has revealed that the government of Cameroon is presently in a desperate attempt to forcefully get schools to resume come Monday Jan 9. Wilfred Tassang opined that “Huge sums of money were dulled out to traditional rulers this Christmas through governors to first class rulers, SDOs to second class and DOs to third class rulers to pressure the teachers.”  Cameroon Intelligence Report understands the money is part of the 24 billion FCFA paid by the Minister of Finance to CPDM business tycoon Baba Danpullo.

Cameroun Info.Net reported earlier today that Mr. Wilfred Tassang has sounded a note of caution to all traditional rulers against receiving such money to sell their consciences.  “Whilst we caution any of our fathers who have taken this money of wickedness not to further desecrate the throne and their authority by taking the wrong side in this struggle, we appeal to all stakeholders not get give up at this point in time, when victory is so close.”

He added that “Those who are for us are more than those who are against us. That’s the only reason to be advanced for the fact the President’s speech leaked more than 3hrs to presentation. We have friends in very high places.” Wilfred Tassang observed that if the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo government fails to force-start schools on the 9th, Yaoundé will also be forced to face the reality.

There have been multiple secret visits to Bamenda ever since the New Year by very highly placed CPDM government officials indicating yet another sign of desperation.  Contrary to a position held by Justice Ayah Paul which called on the Anglophone leaders to give Biya a chance, it is evidently clear that the Biya regime up to now has not announced any measures taken to solve either the problems raised by lawyers or teachers. The Great Wilfred Tassang has appeal to all the teachers not to allow the strike to collapse. “If it does, we shall be greatly spited and the regime will not be under pressure to address these grievances.”

Mr Tassang has also warned union leaders against taking of bribes that will undermine the strike, in his words “For union leaders and others at the forefront of this struggle, beware! It has been revealed in the spirit realms, the release of a huge amount of VOODOO money meant to maim the brain and cause heavy carnage. We hereby call on all to fear God and resist the enemy that he may flee from us.”

The Executive Secretary of Cameroon Teachers trade Union however, reminded parents and the Anglophone student community that teachers and lawyers are not fighting for personal gains but to make Anglophone Cameroon children to be proud of belonging to a nation which they can call their own.

At the time of filing this report, information filtered out that Prime Minister Philemon Yang was en route to Bamenda in a bid to keep his job. The Teachers Trade Unionists say they have not been summoned to any meeting. It was reported that the anti Anglophone Higher Education Minister, Jacques Fame Ndongo was in Kumba to lure teachers back into the classrooms.

Culled from Cameroon Intelligence Report

An Azerbaijan news portal has reported that five Cameroonians lost their lives on the 28^th of December in the country. The Azerbaijani information website, Az made the revelation on New Year’s Day stating that 5 Cameroonians including three footballers and two students were killed in Azerbaijan.

The Azerbaijani online publication did not provide any details but merely observed that the police department had opened an investigation. However, according to information provided by credible Cameroonian diplomatic sources at the embassy in Moscow and quoted by Koaci.com, the Cameroonians would have died from suffocation after a gas leaked at their accommodation center.

By Chi Prudence Asong

The Southern Cameroons trade union leaders have come up with the following. A Joint release will soon be published.

1.) No one for no reason should demonstrate or match during this period. Public demonstrations are cancelled in North West and South West Regions.

2) All Parents, teachers and students are advised not to listen to any publication on social media which is not from the Union leaders of teachers and lawyers.

3) All parents, teachers and students are advised NOT to send their children to school come the 9^th of January. Teachers should stay home and watch over their children.

 4) The union leaders are more determined now than before to fight for the demands they had made. A press release to this will soon come. Remember that we are teachers and must be logical in our thinking.

Barrister Akere Muna  has revealed that Anglophone territories have undergone an annexation by Francophone Cameroon. Akéré Muna, made the revelation in a televised conversation with Spectrum Télévision (STV) on December 29, 2016.  The former President of the Bar Association argued that the current Northwest and Southwest Regions were independent before the October Reunification in 1961.

Akéré Muna contested the statements of those who declare the contrary and pointed out that Southern Cameroons existed as an independent country.  “People had different agendas. I think that for some, it was necessary to mask an annexation and for the others, it was two States. And this desire on the side of Southern Cameroon was so clear that they demanded there be independence before the Reunification. So West Cameroon celebrated its independence at the Centenary Stadium in Victoria before the Reunification. “

Muna also brandished documents referring to the independence of West Cameroon and asserted that he attended the proclamation of the independence of that entity. The former president of Transparency International also observed that during the Foumban negotiations in 1961, “Southern Cameroons did not suspect that there was another game going on “. He added that prior to Nigeria’s independence; Southern Cameroons was managed as an integral part of Nigeria with headquarters at Enugu. But his father, Solomon Tandeng Muna had demanded and obtained that Southern Cameroons be detached from Nigeria before its independence to avoid future negotiations with both Cameroon and Nigeria.

Akéré Muna noted that the Anglophone problem has two sides- One legal and the other political. “On the legal side, we can do a lot of things that have been done, which have completely truncated the truth. But I think that the solution to the problem of our country does not lie in the past. The actions we are undertaking today will determine the future.”

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Francophone tradition was respected on the 1st January 2017, as some service men and women nationwide received recognition for their services to the state. The epaulets and medal award were organized nationwide. In the North, Adamawa, East and South West Regions the ceremonies were highlighted by military parade and the usual congratulatory songs accompanied by bouquet of flowers from family members and love ones.

Officers from the Navy, Army, Gendarmerie, and the Air force commissioned and non-commissioned received their epaulets and medals in respective ceremonies chaired by the administrative authorities of the regions. In Garoua the ceremony was organized at the independent square, under the Chairmanship of Governor Abate Edi Jean. Some 20 Military officers were promoted to new ranks.

In the Adamawa Region 52 military personnel were promoted to the grade of Warrant Officers, Staff Sergeants and Corporals in a colourful ceremony presided over by the Governor Kildadi Taguiéké Boucar. In the East region, 57 men and women in uniform were also upgraded. Governor Gregoire Mvogo who chaired the ceremony also handed Agro pastoral equipment including wheelbarrows, cutlasses, water cans to some 9 military officers who retired from active service.

The Special Amphibious Battalion in Tiko in the South West region stole the show. It was the Divisional Officer for Tiko, Patrick Ngwashi who handed the distinctions, praising the battalion for their acts of bravery demonstrated over the years in the defense of the nation. Epaulets were received by some 30 lucky recipients.

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Anglophone leaders have canceled a plan for successive strikes this New Year after it was revealed government agents have infiltrated some of the groups involved in the struggle for a Southern Cameroons state.

The consortium said in a statement released recently that hush hush money has been paid to some Southern Cameroonians to use the strike action negatively. The communiqué also revealed that the Yaounde regime intends to arrest the leaders if the demonstrations turn violent.

The leaders have promised to make changes in the approach that reorganizes the Southern Cameroons quest for nationhood. The reforms are one of a handful of outstanding actions that will finally paralyzed all administrative actions from La Republique du Cameroun.

The consortium leaders say all Southern Cameroonians should stay indoors and that 11^th February and 20^th May celebrations will no longer hold in Southern Cameroons.

The first 24-hour strike was to begin today in the South West and North West regions. Further strikes had been scheduled for next week. The strikes would have led to the collapsed of business activities in the entire region.

By Rita Akana

The Chairman of the Social Democratic Front has reacted angrily to President Biya’s recent address to the nation. Ni John Fru Ndi observed that the Head of State proposed nothing as solutions to the problems that has rocked the Anglophone regions of the country.

Fru Ndi did not mince his words expressing his disappointment after the speech by the man who has governed Cameroon for 34 years. Hinted the Chairman “I was not expect anything from the speech. He did not say anything about the young people who were killed … He did not say anything about the return of Anglophone students to school. Whether Anglophone students go back to school or not, he does not care, the schools reopen or not, it’s not his problem.”

The SDF leader reaffirmed his support for the Anglophone lawyers, teachers and English-speaking students who, in his opinion are only defending their rights. In this traditional speech to the Nation, the Cameroonian dictator used offensive language against Anglophone protesters. Biya called them “extremists, manipulated and instrumentalized”.

By Rita Akana